George Steel is leaving to take over the Dallas Opera, but Miller Theatre goes on, with the American première of “Oresteia,” an opera by the late Greek master Iannis Xenakis—the largest production ever mounted at the house. (212-854-7799.)

THE THEATRE

ARKADINA & CO.

Sept. 16

The Royal Court Theatre production of Chekhov’s “The Seagull” that played in London’s West End last year is coming to the Walter Kerr. London stage veteran Kristin Scott Thomas makes her Broadway début, as does Peter Sarsgaard, alongside Mackenzie Crook (recognizable from the British version of “The Office”) and Zoe Kazan. Ian Rickson directs. (212-239-6200.)

ART

ALL ABOUT EVE

Sept. 21-Jan. 5

“Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night,” at MOMA, is the first show to explore the Dutch painter’s fascination with painting the world after dark. Some forty works, including the iconic canvases “The Starry Night” and “The Potato Eaters,” will be on view, as will a selection of van Gogh’s letters and epistolary sketches. (212-708-9400.)

MOVIES

BEST OF THE FEST

Sept. 26-Oct. 12

Among the eagerly anticipated offerings at the forty-sixth edition of the New York Film Festival are Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah,” about the Neapolitan Mafia; Jia Zhangke’s “24 City,” about the lives of working women in China from the nineteen-fifties to the present; Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour-long “Che,” starring Benicio del Toro; and Hong Sang-Soo’s “Night and Day,” about a South Korean artist in Paris.